Amount of money or chips that each player puts into the pot before the cards are dealt.

Ante is a name originated from Croatia, Slovania, Bosnia and Hrzegovina and Yugoslavia that mean's Anthony in english.

1. "Up the level", "Make it better" or "Step up your game".

2. to "Get Ready"

to put one and ones friends money together so that they can purchase an item.

Ante-up

Who is Ante? Ante Pavelic(ruler of croatia during WW2), a zealous Croatian nationalist and fanatical hater of Serbs... Pavelic lead a terrorist group called the Ustashi in a brutal campaign against Jews and Serbs in Croatia. 'A good Ustashi,' he told his men, 'is he who can use his knife to cut a child from the womb of its mother.'

Background: Lebanese Ghetto

Definition: To leave